Hi,
I did a clean install of slack10 and using kernel 2.4.26 I can get
everything on my system to work. I also installed kernel
generic-2.6.7, along with its modules and alsa modules and did the
mkinitrd routine as specified. The kernel loads ok but I cannot get
it to recognize my cdrw drive (ide), nor can I get sound to work,
although alsaconf successfully finds my sound card. Attempt to run
aplay or amixer result in an error message. Printing was also
unsuccessful, although I did not battle the cups configuration, so
that might be the problem there. The following is the output from
lsmod for generic-2.6.7. When I added ide-scsi the kernel recognized
my cdrw but I still couldn't mount it. Also adding usb-ohci caused
kernel recognition of my external usb hard drive but again I could
not mount it.
Am I going to have to build my own 2.6 kernel or is there a way to
load the correct modules to make things work?
Thanks for your help, JWC

Module Size Used by
ipt_state 1792 3
ipt_LOG 6016 1
iptable_nat 20780 1
ip_conntrack 28168 2 ipt_state,iptable_nat
iptable_filter 2432 1
ip_tables 15488 4
ipt_state,ipt_LOG,iptable_nat,iptable_filter
usb_storage 59968 0
tulip 42272 0
crc32 4096 1 tulip
snd_pcm_oss 49704 0
snd_mixer_oss 17408 1 snd_pcm_oss
snd_emu10k1 82184 0
snd_rawmidi 21028 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_pcm 80904 2 snd_pcm_oss,snd_emu10k1
snd_timer 21764 1 snd_pcm
snd_seq_device 7304 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi
snd_ac97_codec 64644 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_page_alloc 10888 2 snd_emu10k1,snd_pcm
snd_util_mem 3840 1 snd_emu10k1
snd_hwdep 8196 1 snd_emu10k1
snd 48484 10
snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_emu10k1,snd_rawmidi, snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_seq_device,snd_ac97_codec,sn d_util_mem,snd_hwdep
soundcore 6752 1 snd
ipv6 212064 8
ds 13572 0
yenta_socket 17536 0
pcmcia_core 52676 2 ds,yenta_socket
3c59x 35112 0
agpgart 26920 0
psmouse 17544 0
reiserfs 218576 1

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On Wed, 18 Aug 2004 17:15:16 +0000, jwc wrote:

> Hi,
> I did a clean install of slack10 and using kernel 2.4.26 I can get
> everything on my system to work. I also installed kernel generic-2.6.7,
> along with its modules and alsa modules and did the mkinitrd routine as
> specified. The kernel loads ok but I cannot get it to recognize my cdrw
> drive (ide), nor can I get sound to work, although alsaconf successfully
> finds my sound card. Attempt to run aplay or amixer result in an error
> message. Printing was also unsuccessful, although I did not battle the
> cups configuration, so that might be the problem there. The following is
> the output from lsmod for generic-2.6.7. When I added ide-scsi the kernel
> recognized my cdrw but I still couldn't mount it. Also adding usb-ohci
> caused kernel recognition of my external usb hard drive but again I could
> not mount it.
> Am I going to have to build my own 2.6 kernel or is there a way to load
> the correct modules to make things work? Thanks for your help, JWC

<SNIP>

Try #modprobe sr_mod
#modprobe sg
and/or #modprobe sd

You may just need sr_mod for the USB HDD, but those 3 modules are
basically SCSI support, which is needed for the CDRW if you used ide-scsi.
If they load and you can access your CDRW and USB HDD (usually under
/dev/sda1), uncomment those lines in /etc/rc.d/rc.modules

Tyler